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Win 7, after January ?



I'm going to be asking this one around, but particularly wanted
to hear Flash's take on it. MS security updates or support for
Win 7 will come to a screeching halt (?) next month. There was
some talk online about the possibility that MS would offer some
*paid* extension option on the updates, mainly for businesses,
but I think that was a trial balloon at best, which ultimately came
to naught.

Does anyone intend to keep running Win-7 for awhile ? Just how
"unsafe" do you reckon that is apt to be. (Assuming that you
continue on with your existing anti-virus apps.) Of course, I
would like to find some more expert opinions on this, as well.
I can tell you that I know of at least one local business that
continued to run XP for a couple years after its official
"termination" date, that they ran a lot of stuff which regularly
touched the internet, and that they suffered no known harm
as a result of doing this.

Perhaps the supposed risk is much overblown ? I do have
some options, as there are a couple Win-10 rigs to hand here,
which can easily be swapped in or out, as necessity dictates.
I still don't like Win-10 -- at all. There is plenty of software
I run (frequently) that does not much like it either. When there
is more time for me to experiment, I plan to apply Flash's
published Win-10 "counter-measures" to a Win-10 setup, plus
maybe some stuff that makes the UI look and function more
like that of Win-7, to see if that hobbles the OS in any meaningful
way. (As some online reports have threatened that it would.)

Jordan